Continuity and Discontinuity


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Perspectives on the relationship between the Old and New Testaments as they concern theological systems, Mosaic law, salvation, hermeneutics, the people of God, and kingdom promises. From a respected group of modern theologians.




Other Proof of Poincare’s Hypothesis


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Not so long ago, about 30 years ago, not only the world community of mathematicians, but other scientific communities and even non-scientific communities with close attention — some with partiality, some without partiality — but followed with interest, and even delved into scientific details of the proof of the Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman of the hypothesis that was formulated in 1904 by the outstanding French mathematician Henri Poincaré. I was also interested in the same evidence. True, the reason for my interest was not so much Perelman’s proofs in their mathematical details, but rather the formulation of the hypothesis itself, which seemed to me an extremely interesting formulation of the problem of such manifolds, the topological and metric properties of which, in their unity with each other, are the cause of the geometric shape of the space of the universe. If someone asks, why start the same scientific business if there is already a mathematical proof of the same hypothesis. Firstly, if anything determines the geometric shape of any space, including the space of the universe, then perhaps its physical content. If so, then from the standpoint of the spatial unity of the geometric form of the space of the universe and the physical content of the same geometric form, Poincaré’s mathematical hypothesis is certainly a theoretically incomplete hypothesis. All the same justifies the need for the science of physical and geometric science in their unity with themselves and among themselves to prove those manifolds, physical and geometric manifolds, the natural properties of which in their unity with each other are responsible for the spatial unity of the universe with itself. Secondly, since truth is not an absolute truth, it reveals itself each time as a relative truth, which does not prohibit, but permits another proof of the same mathematical hypothesis, which in a given place is no longer mathematical, but geometrically physical and physically geometric.




Ideas toward a Phenomenology of Interruptions


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This text is the first book-length analysis of the problem of the relations between time, sleep, and the body in Husserl’s phenomenology. Ideas toward a Phenomenology of Interruptions reconfigures the unity of the life of subjectivity in light of the phenomenon of dreamless sleep, supplements Husserl’s analyses of subjectivity through integrating interruptions into the life of consciousness, and establishes a new phenomenological concept of subjectivity, that is, a fractured subject. In analyzing the phenomenon of dreamless sleep, the author develops a new theory of the body, namely, the sleeping-body, and explains the importance of the lived-body in the experience and constitution of time. The author analyzes the moments of falling asleep and waking up, as well as the period of dreamless sleep, and shows that a more complete phenomenological concept of subjectivity requires attention to the interweaving of continuity and discontinuity. This project therefore aims to provide a critical counterpart to Husserl’s analyses by developing his transcendental phenomenology into a phenomenology of interruptions. Through this account of dreamless sleep, this text shows furthermore that subjectivity ceases to perceive and experience the flow of time through retention, protention, and the primal impression, and that the time that is not lived through during this period is lost time. Moreover, it explores the methodological consequences of interruptions for phenomenology, and shows that phenomenology reaches its limits in the phenomena of dreamless sleep because it is incapable of fully accessing or accounting for them through the phenomenological reduction.




One and Many


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Is the world one or many? Ji Zhang revisits this ancient philosophical question from the modern perspective of comparative studies. His investigation stages an intellectual exchange between Plato, founder of the Academy, and Ge Hong, who systematized Daoist belief and praxis. Zhang not only captures the tension between rational Platonism and abstruse Daoism, but also creates a bridge between the two.




Unity and Discontinuity


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This study focuses on change and continuity within the architecture of the Southern and Northern Low Countries from 1530 to 1700. Instead of looking at both regions separately and stressing the stylistic differences between the classicist North and the baroque South, the book establishes a new, common history of architecture for both parts of the Low Countries during the 17th century. Their reception of Antiquity in the guise of the Italian Renaissance, first introduced in Court circles in the early 16th century, constituted the common heritage on which they built after the political separation. The book also reassesses the position of Netherlandish architecture in the international debate on the Renaissance north of the Alps. Krista De Jonge is professor of architectural history at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She has published extensively on early modern Netherlandish architecture, including Burgundian and Habsburg court residences and the Renaissance problematic. Konrad A. Ottenheym is professor for architectural history at Utrecht University. His research is focussed on Dutch early modern architecture and its international connections.













The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism


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This is the first book on East-West comparative thought to critically analyze the Zen Buddhist model of self in modern Japanese philosophy from the standpoint of American pragmatism.




Shadow of the Absolute


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An extensive discussion of false absolutes, culminating in humanism.